King Leopold Lives and Returns to Brussels Trap
Captain Adams narrates a covert European plot to deceive the Belgian baroness Vaughan about King Leopold's death. A forged letter and staged abdication prompt her to flee Brussels toward St Anselm Abbey, where Leopold secretly awaits. The ruse collapses when Leopold appears alive, revealing the deception.
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Edward VII
Foreign Office
Lord Lansdowne
Edward Grey
Washington
Buckingham Palace
Sir Edward Grey
Foreign Secretary
King
Adams
Belgium
Germany
Antwerp
Europe
Brussels
Leopold
Vaughan
Belgian Congo
Socialist Party
St. Anselm
Ostend
Count of Flanders
Harwich
M. Vanderpoel
Flanders
King Albert
Albert
Huysmans
van Keek
M. Vanderpiel
St. Anselm Abbey
Gare du Nord
Villebonne
Monsieur
Captain Adams
Monsieur van Keek
St. Anselm’s Abbey
Battle with an Elephant on Mount Kenya Endangers Explorer
American naturalist Carl Akeley narrowly escaped death after a bull elephant charged him while pursuing mountaintop specimens with native helpers. He twisted free to grip the tusks and shielded himself between them, later revived after hours unconscious. The party fled and hauled him to camp for care.
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Carl Akeley
London
America
Africa
American Museum of Natural History
New York
New York Herald
Mr. Akeley
Mount
Kenya
My Greatest Women The Poet’s Child’s List
A rustic narrative poem recounts a boy and his parents debating who the greatest women are. The boy lists grandmothers, aunts, his mother, a teacher, and a cook, while the father names Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth. In the end the father concedes the boy’s list is sufficient.
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Cleopatra
British Paradise for Tramp in Cornish Countryside
An elderly benevolent lady near St Austell in Cornwall provides shelter and meals to a growing troupe of tramps at her home The Retreat also known as Hembal She 80 year old Mrs Stephens ensures weather protection and even offers silver coins to aid the travelers browsing a secluded country residence along a lane to the main road.
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Blues and Golds
Vaughan
King Albert
Albert
St. Anselm
Villebonne
Belgium
Virago
Vanderpoel
Brussels
Poplar Grove
Cornwall
St. Austell
Truro
Stephens
London Dispatch
Hembal
West Country
Fabulous Fables and a Barroom Punch Line
A showman markets the two greatest freaks in exchange for a small fee revealing ordinary men. The crowd cheers, but the lesson is fame may come from not being famous. A baldheaded cocktail joke ends in a bartender being struck and a fifteentation.
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Dewey
Vermont
Against His Principles
A starving goat finds a newspaper in an alley and decides not to eat it, declaring it an old Ram's Horn and refusing to be cannibal.
What He Wanted Weary Willie-Dese Inventions
A humorous, compressed item noting a pair of eccentric characters, Weary Willie-Dese and Anxious Arthur-Yep, discussing what they would invent, focusing on a biteless dorg rather than a horseless carriage.
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Willie
Arthur
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H. M. Egbert
W. G. Chapman
M. van Keek
Madam
Madame
Onlookerr
Wilbur D. Eee
Bess
Gran'ma Henderson
Gran’ma Jones
Mary
Eliza Josephine
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